Ronald Reagan Quotes

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.